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250 Essential Chinese Characters for Everyday Use, Vol. 1

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 495.182421
EAN: 9780804833592
ISBN: 0804833591
Label: Charles E Tuttle Co
Manufacturer: Charles E Tuttle Co
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: July 15, 2003
Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co
Sales Rank: 95225
Studio: Charles E Tuttle Co

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Book Description:
* Each character is shown in both simplified and traditional form, along with its pronunciation and meaning. Information is given about the radical (essential for finding it in a Chinese dictionary) and other components. The character configuration and stroke order are clearly shown, along with other tips to help form it correctly. A grid of practice squares for each character page allows the user to build confidence in writing Chinese.

* Several compounds are also listed for each character. Each of these is likewise accompanied by its pronunciation, meaning and an example sentence (also transliterated and translated). These compounds and sentences build vocabulary and give extra practice in reading Chinese. All compounds are listed in an alphabetical index at the end of the book for ready reference.

* Each set of 10 characters is followed by a quiz containing a variety of imaginative exercises to review and practice the recently learned characters.

* Each set of 50 characters is followed by a "Character Building" section designed to build familiarity with identifying radicals within characters, a Review of vocabulary learned, and a Word Puzzle as an enjoyable way of revising the material covered to that point.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Rote Learning
I bought volume 1 and 2 of this book when I first started learning characters and found that it just didn't work very well for me.

What I didn't like about this book:

1) It introduces characters strictly by frequency. In many cases the more complex characters are introduced without teaching the meanings of the simpler character components.
2) For characters with different simplified/traditional forms, memory hints are geared towards traditional characters with the ... Read More

Rating:

- For the enthusiastic beginner
This is a great starter to transition into reading and writing Chinese. Not only does it provide character descriptions with example sentences with pinyin (phonetic) accompaniment, there are exercises throughout to test learning and to help review later on. I definitely look forward to using this book to jump start my Chinese reading and writing.

I wouldn't refer the learner of Japanese to this book, for the fact, Japanese rarely use the simplified characters in everyday writing.

Rating:

- Buy it if you want to learn Mandarin characters
This book will give you a very good start to character literacy. It should be used in conjunction with a program that gives you practice in pronunciation. (I've not found one shoe that fits all.) I'd recommend buying this book and v.2 along with the separately published Pimsleur CD's.

Rating:

- Excellent
This book is absolutely one of the two keys to learning Mandarin. (The other is the Pimsleur programs.) I never thought I'd learn this challenging language, even though I'm conversant in three LOTE already; but this book is helping me learn how to write in Mandarin. It also has each new character or word in various contexts to show shades of meaning, which is really important in a tonal language.

I highly recommend this and its companion volume, 1, along with the Pimsleur program, ... Read More

Rating:

- Get the flash cards instead
My only issue with this book is that it is almost completely redundant with the flash cards (Chinese In A Flash) offered by the same author and publisher. I have found the flash cards to be a much more effective way to learn Chinese characters, and so am disappointed about having also purchased the book. Although the book does sometimes include a sentence or two about a character's origin, which could in principle be useful for remembering that character, these sentences usually refer to the traditional ... Read More

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